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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...much less airy and aristocratic comedy than Congreve's The Way of the World, Love for Love is for that very reason a livelier theater piece. Its farce is its fortune; just about the broadest stage business in the whole play-countrified Miss Prue being taught city ways of love -is just about the best thing it offers. Indeed, like almost all Restoration comedy, much of Love for Love runs, sometimes boringly, to bawdry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...warmup parades on Patriot's Day--one in Lexington and the other in a Boston parade--gave band members some spring training for next fall's impressive schedule. A trip to Virginia will highlight early-season play, while the customary New Haven trip will close out the schedule. Two new medleys, one each for Boston University and Virginia, promise to continue the string of successful band originals...

Author: By Charies W. Bailey, | Title: Band Winds Up Season With Commencement Appearance | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...Blue batting order to load the bases and set the stage for Bolt Elwell's high hopper. Going from first to second on the hit, Yale third baseman Dick Mathews crashed into Jack Forts, who was unable to handle the chance. Two runs came across on the play...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Yale Squelches Crimson on Diamond, 9-3 | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

Thrown off stride by the Praying Colonels from Kentucky, Coach Fisher's forces next journeyed to Princeton where the Tigers punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports, Tradition Played Major Role in '22 As Post-War College Returned to 'Normal" | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

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